We could not find away to make ourselves look more juvenal and incompetent

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Their attack on the economy is more than that, though: it is an attack on the nation’s global standing. Yesterday, Christopher Chivvis, the director of the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment, wrote that the debt ceiling crisis brings into question “how serious Washington is about leading the world…. In an era of global strategic competition, the United States will be entering the ring with one hand tied behind its back if its leaders can’t make progress on their domestic disagreements and moderate vicious political polarization.”
“Foreign leaders will doubt American reliability more and more, hurting Washington’s relationships with the very countries whose loyalty it’s competing for with Beijing,” he wrote, as other countries doubt that the U.S. can commit to a program for longer than a single administration. Moreover, the crisis will hurt the power of the dollar, whose domination of the international monetary system has brought the U.S. extraordinary advantages.
“Washington’s dysfunction also helps its autocratic adversaries in the global contest over ideology,” Chivvis notes.

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My tolerance level for the ignorant and loud mouthed trash roaming the halls of Congress is nearing it's end :redmad:

It is no coincidence that China is pursuing ways to make the Yuan the lead currency in the world. Doing so would significantly restructure economic trade and world political power (which is why China is doing it).

Hunter